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gamepsys
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> the problem with short stints is that you're considerably more likely to fail the initial screening by the internal recruiter. That's exactly why I was trying to guide you into a back door.
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Did you leave positive impressions on your coworkers? Did you maintain contact? Part of the advantage of moving every few years is that you work with more people, which means more people are willing to recommend you for open positions. I
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Patients are often in a vulnerable position and we use laws to protect the vulnerable. Not only is the patient often impaired, but there is a massive information asymmetry naturally between an expert with years of post graduate education on
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When GPT-3 was still new, a friend brought up the idea of using it to keep correspondence with his personal relationships in a brainstorming session. After discussing the idea for about a minute we decided it was missing the entire point o
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gamepsys
2y ago
I like it when you create bug reports. However submitting a bug report to an open source project is not issuing a work order. If you have any urgency to your bug then you should pay to have it fixed. However this article is not about open
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2y ago
I know we aren't going back to peak popularity. The concern is that FF moves to so little marketshare that websites no longer build for compatibility.
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2y ago
As a Firefox daily user, this list makes me better understand why Firefox has such a low market share. Reorganizing menus or adding alt text to PDFs won't make any impact on user adoption/churn because users don't care. The
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2y ago
> Doesn’t anyone proofread anymore? If the headline got you to click than the article has completed it's job. The other 500 words are just to make you not feel scammed.
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2y ago
I get pissed off at the website for asking to track me, not pissed off at the law that requires my consent to track me. I hope many people feel the same way I do.
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2y ago
You are just kicking the can down the road. Then the tool would be the same random exe attack vector. Even then, if the tool is designed to run random game code then the gamecode is still an attack vector. Trust in software is a huge issu
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2y ago
I would love for official re-releases and remasters to be made with this method. I'm not sure about N64 titles, but I know many developers have lost the original sourcecode to beloved classic games. This had lead to a lot of re-relea
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2y ago
It's probably simplest to just build a case for your favorite keyboard.
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I personally find the two large buttons in the thumb clusters to be easy to access. I don't think the entire thumb cluster is designed to be used commonly while touch typing. There are plenty of pinky reachable buttons you can map nee
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2y ago
> I was not expecting from Nature Nature has been on a downward trend for awhile, since at least the Woo Suk Hwang steam cell scandal in the mid '00s.
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2y ago
> Because his writing style is so poor and very wordy, there are almost no golden sentences Did you read it in Chinese? I have only read English translations of his work, and I assumed the style issues were more related to the translati
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2y ago
Her thesis is that increasing interest rates creates a headwind against the most successful strategy (leverage) corporations have been using to make money. It's true that often people reach conclusions and then back fill justification
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Is the era of low interest rates and increasing global financial interconnection truly over, or are we just seeing a small downturn in a larger trend?
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I think you are misunderstanding what the author means by "stock Debian." The issue here is that the hardware is so unique that we need to add kernel modules that are not included in the standard Linux kernel that ships with Debi
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2y ago
Stuff like this is why the Windows market share is decreasing. I think it's shortsighted of Microsoft to focus on increasing revenue per user at the cost of slowly bleeding customers instead of focusing on building an operating system
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2y ago
I justify expensive displays because I sit at my desk 12-16hours a day 6.5 days a week. I usually buy a top of the line display (or array of displays) every 3-5 years. The difference between a great flat panel and a good flat panel is hug
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> I'm not sure it is over the games that ran on custom hardware that wasn't just a Windows PC. It is. I've played on both modern ligthening cabs, and on a variety of old official hardware setups in the CRT and Twinkle era
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I do. It's great, basically unlimited screen realestate on the same screen. No concerns about burn-in you would have on oled. I'm a huge fan of the 1000R curve as well. My biggest complaint is that my webcam is now at an odd a
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My current main display (Odyssey Ark) weighs 91 pounds, so I think I'm at the point where "small size" is not longer a benefit of modern displays
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Look at a Beatmania IIDX Lightening Cab or a Sound Voltex Valkyrie cab. Modern flat panels are are providing better rhythm gaming experiences than CRTs ever did.
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> we do have to be wary of the direction some groups would love to take it 100% agree, and this has been true since I've been a netizen.
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We must be on different internets. The one I'm on is having a golden era. * My current ISP offers greater than 1000/1000 fiber for a smaller monthly payment than my first home broadband connection in 2003. Adjust for inflation i
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Male, 30s reporting. I'm often seen as the more successful and stable member of friend groups. The number of people that come to me talking about their puts, calls, crypto, and other high risk investment play is way to high. I always
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2y ago
Sometimes in a private conversation I will say things I would not want the public to hear me say. In places where there is one party consent it requires much more trust to have these types of private conversations, because any conversation
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I think this is an interesting decision for a two party consent state. Typically in a two party consent state all private conversations cannot be recorded unless both parties agree to have it recorded. This means it is illegal to secretly
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2y ago
Two interesting tidbits about Intuit and taxes. * Intuit is one of the original users of AWS. Amazon has peak server requirements in Nov/Dec, and Intuit has peak server requirements in March/April. A server sharing system was a
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